IMac hangs on spinning color wheel when coming out of screen saver

Since updating to the latest version 10.5.5 my iMac hangs when coming out of screen saver mode with the spinning color wheel and I have to do a hard reboot.
I did some searching and it looks like this was also a problem back with and earlier version of 10.5
I use the pictures screen saver.
Anyone else have this problem since the last update??

Medievalknight wrote:
I was so spoiled from not having to do anything with my iMac but enjoy it that it never occurred to me a little maintenance would be required.
Still compared to the Windows PC's I have around that I have to try and maintain once a day I think the Mac is a killer machine....
You should attend to your iMac. Even the best machines need periodic attention.
Like an iceberg, most of Leopard is "under the ocean" or as we say, "under the hood." There is an extremely powerful BSD OS down there and it is really that, not Leopard per se, that need an occasional "tweak."
Actually there are automatic routines that do much of the hidden maintenance but permissions repair is not one of them.
Again, you do not need to run permissions repair every day. Not even every month, but it's best to do it anytime you install new software - before and after installing the software.
Some, but not all of the issues you see here are the result of not maintaining the computer.

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den.thed wrote:
John has suggested rebuilding the Mail mailboxes. Once Mail is open, go to: Mailbox on the menu bar and select Rebuild.
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I recently just bought a macbook (Intel 2.0ghz, 1gb RAM, 160G HD), coz my friends have macbooks and they run awesome. So I figured, I buy a macbook and it will run awesome. I'm starting to regret buying it. I opened the box, and it was ok, color wheel would come out once in a while. Now, even after a RAM upgrade (4gb), my macbook still keeps popping out that color wheel, everytime I'm browsing the internet to even when I'm just playing movies. I already took it to the mac store in short hills for the to see if there is anything wrong. I asked them to run a hardware diagnostics on it to see if there's any hardware problems, but they told me it's fine. I told them it's not coz I see how other macbooks run and that's what I thought what I was buying. Anyway, any information to help me out would be great. It just always seems like that color wheel keep popping out and my computer is always running slow. I reinstalled the OS several times already to make sure it's not software related. Any suggestions?

HI,
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The spinningwheel is an indication that your computer waits for some application to due a certain task. that can be loading a certain page in a browser, or that can be loading lots of info into the memory. both of this take time. So the diagnostics is meant to find out, which of your applications needs time, and for which reason, and then get the "therapy" to cure it. For example, if you load photodirectories of many thousand large pictures, or several dvd movies or games, then your MB's memory is overloaded, and has to write things to disk, which takes a lot of time.
As JasonFear said, go to your Login and make sure that no application is running at Login. Then restart your MB.
After restart, there should be no application in the Dock which is highlighted with a little point or similar, except Finder and Dock.
If there are other applications, click on them and quit them ("Cmd-q").
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Still no spinning wheel after Safari has started and loaded the start-up page? If spinning wheel, tell us. if not, continue.
Surf a bit to places where you previously have experienced the spnnwheel.
are you playing games via internet? these can be timeconsuming (due to lengthy downloads) and will cause the computer to wait, so the spnnwl comes up. Tell us!
If everything works fine , continue. start the next of you favourite applications. iMusic? some DVD games? tell us which application you have started when the spnnwl comes up.
Please, do this, as we need more info to help you. N any case, you MB should not be the problem. Most likely is the problem in the way, how you use it, and by using it in the most efficient way will make out of it a terrible little machine!
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Delete the sessionstore.js [2] file and possible sessionstore-##.js [3] files with a number and sessionstore.bak in the Firefox Profile Folder.
* Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
Deleting sessionstore.js will cause App Tabs and Tab Groups and open and closed (undo) tabs to get lost, so you will have to create them again (make a note or bookmark them).
See also:
* [1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore
* [2] http://kb.mozillazine.org/sessionstore.js
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